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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Disclaimer: There are no men in this post. There are only some tufted titmice and a few other birds. So if you’re looking for men, I apologize for that in advance.

And now, on to the titmice.

They sure are cute.

And feisty.

And they’re quick.

Really quick.

I so enjoy sitting outside in our yard on a sunny day and capturing the bird life with my 70-300mm lens. Above is a female downy woodpecker. Not to be confused with the hairy woodpecker, which is similar but a little bit bigger in the body (and with a longer beak).

A sweet little chickadee.

A female cardinal in all her burnished glory.

And her mate watching her from above.

I love this lens – it really lets me lock on the birds for sharp images. I take all of my bird photos hand-held so it’s important to me to have vibration reduction in a lens. All of these shots were taken with my Nikon D7000 on the P mode with the ISO set to 100. Images were edited using TRA’s prettyizer action and Kim Klassen’s shine texture, soft light blend mode, brushing off the bird image.

I hope that makes sense.

And finally, a nuthatch seems to pose at the suet feeder.

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I did take a quick trip yesterday with some friends. We went to (of all places) New York City. Good grief, what is coming over me? My friend told me she was going up there to the Little Italy area, specifically to look for scarves for sale, so I jumped on that bandwagon figuring I’d never seen that area of the city, so why not? I’ll share some photos tomorrow. Got home late, and these pictures were already set up in a post I had ready for this evening.

Your just like me with the camera ! I love mine as well 55-300mm Nikon DX and my Nikon D3100 with the Viberation Reduction lenses ! These cameras and lenses are awesome arent they ! Your photos are Fantastic ! Nothing like being there watching your subject as you photograph them ! Have a great day !

The only thing I understood was men, and that there were none. Thank you for making that clear in the very clever title, because it set my expectations right up front. I would have been searching. Looking.

Okay .. now I am really scratching my head .. she wanted to go to Little Italy to get scarves? Isnt she from NJ? Has she never heard of the Secaucus outlets? In NYC you pay almost 9% tax ... in NJ you pay none .. I thought she wanted to go see Little Italy ...

Oh I love those tufted titmice guys...so cute they are. This past weekend I had a very curious (very odd behavior) little bluebird checking me out. He was so close to me, I LOVED it and wished I had my camera.

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